"Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement."

-- Felix Frankfurter

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“I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.”
“I love to smell like roses, literally all day!”

Source : "Face Time | Rachel Roy". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. January 24, 2012.
“I know that if I scare myself once a day, I'm a better person.”
“... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.”

Source : Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry (2011). “Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson”, p.106, Counterpoint Press
“If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of nature, justly held to be the common and noblest heritage of the human race, will not be spared. Thus, truth being gradually obscured by darkness, pernicious and manifold error, as too often happens, will easily prevail.”

Source : Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.108, TAN Books
“Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.”
“I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.”

Source : Interview in "Hollywood Reporter", 1949.
“First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.”

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